Important [Merged topic] Kunena RSS feed does not work with Registered Users-only forum

Thank you for your answers. This website that is a company website: is it accessible on the internet? Are any of the forums and categories viewable by the public (that is, you don't need to login to view them) and do they have topics in them?

What happens if you change RSS History = 1 Month (or 1 Year), say? Thank you for providing details about the other Kunena RSS settings. They should stay the way you have set them.

The website is accessible via internet but this has not been released yet.The forum in the website is accessible only to registered members and not for public....I have set the RSS History field to "1 month" but this didn't work.....

shailaja wrote:

The forum in the website is accessible only to registered members and not for public.

There is your problem. Because your forum is only accessible to registered members, there's nothing that the RSS feed can access because you've locked it out. Kunena honours this standard W3C security convention. We discussed this at length in RSS Feed for Registered Users? .

Allow public access and the RSS feeds will probably start working.

I'm having some trouble with RSS too. I need a "latest posts" module however mod_kunenalatest (or the underlying kunena code) has some bug that breaks translation in other modules - so I figures I'd just use the RSS feed and an RSS reader module.

(PS shouldn't there be an official latest posts module :dry: )

Problem is most of the RSS modules won't read the feed properly and those that do have screwy formatting, what's more validating it on w3.org gives an error claiming -

The feed is -

www.fittogether.se/index.php?option=com_...unc=fb_rss&no_html=1

The feed loads fine in IE8 and Firefox3, but looks lousy in Chrome.

All forums are publicly available

Any ideas?

Thank you for your questions, David, however your problem is quite different to the problem that this topic was created for. The subject, "Kunena forum RSS feed error", is a little vague and a catch-all for just about anything remotely connected to RSS feeds. However, in this case, shailaja asked a very specific question about a very specific set of circumstances.

With due respect, your situation involves different circumstances and does not seem to bear any relevance except to the fact that your problem concerns a problem involving the "Kunena forum RSS feed". The purpose of trying to keep discussions focused on a single issue is to help others who may be in the same situation. If we didn't care this much we might as well have only one discussion topic entitled "Kunena problems" and let everyone write about anything under that.

Can you see how the difficulties it can cause in the future for users who are in your situation when they start reading about shailaja's problem. Conversely, if others are in shalija's situation they will be thrown off-balance when, halfway through the topic, we start talking about something completely different! :S

Anyway, let's talk about something completely different. I understand your need to use the RSS feed as a latest posts module. In fact, this is exactly one of the purposes that I've used Kunena's RSS for in several of my websites. I described the operation in A simple alternative to the "latest posts module" . It's nothing fancy; it's just plain Joomla.

The fact that the formatting of your feed looks lousy in Google Chrome is irrelevant to shalija's problem where he's getting no feed at all. The fact that you are getting a feed because your forums are publicly available. This was the point I was trying to make earlier in this discussion. Thank you for confirming the fact. This, I believe is the shalija's answer and the answer for others in that situation.

The Kunena developers are looking to take over the construction and support for a couple of user-developed features: the latest posts module is one of those they are currently considering.

I don't know where you obtained the URL that you submitted to the W3C Feed Validation Service , but when I clicked the RSS icon on your Kunena forum page, this was the URL I obtained, which I submitted to the Feed Validation Service and which validated as a valid RSS feed.

In conclusion, I think the question you were asking was "Why do I get an error when I try to validate my Kunena RSS feed?" I think we've now addressed your problem.

It seemed to me they were related permission errors, which is why I posted in this thread rather than start a new one.

In any case the validation problem seems to have been because I lopped off &lang=en from the URL of the feed. It validates on w3.org with it, but gives the "direct access" error without it, despite both working in my browsers.

Odd.

Possibly the same issue is affecting the RSS modules.

Thanks for your help.